“My brother, Cecil Edward Chesterton, was born when I was about five years old; and, after a brief pause, began to argue. He continued to argue to the end…. I am glad to think that through all those years we never stopped arguing; and we never once quarreled.” These words from G. K. Chesterton’s autobiography
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Have you ever noticed that more and more parents seem to be spoiling their children? But according to Naomi Schaefer Riley, there is one area in which parents should be encouraged to spoil their children. That area is books. As Riley implies, good parenting so often involves saying “no” to the demands and desires of
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Keeping up with the Jones can drive families into debt and make them envious and miserable. But it could also be an important driver of low fertility rates, according to a mathematical model developed by anthropologists and published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. “The areas were we see the greatest declines in
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A few nights ago, my four-year-old daughter asked me if animals go to heaven. She is a rather philosophical little creature, but I’m guessing her question was motivated primarily by her recent viewing of All Dogs Go to Heaven at her cousins’ home over Easter weekend. Unprepared, I quickly replied that they do, if you
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On April 1st, the Chicago Teachers Union held a strike that shut down the district. The strike is ostensibly over changes in pension contributions, pay for experience, and other money related matters. According to ThinkProgress.org, “On Friday, the Chicago Teachers Union staged a strike. Union members picketed schools, held rallies at City Hall, the Cook
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Once again, the Chicago Public Schools made national news with another strike by teachers and administrators, who shut the district down for the day. The Chicago Teachers Union called it a “Day of Action: Fight for Funding Rally & Protest March” and described the efforts as follows: In this unprecedented strike for political demands and
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